Rhema Otabor Season 2023-24
Honors
NCAA Champion (Javelin - 2023, 2024)
Collegiate Javelin Record Holder
School Record Holder
Bahamian Record Holder
Big Ten Champion (Javelin - 2023, 2024)
Bahamian National Champion (Javelin - 2023)
Pan American Games Silver Medalist (Javelin - 2023)
World Athletics Championships Qualifier (Javelin - 2023)
USTFCCCA First-Team All-America (Javelin - 2022, 2023, 2024)
USTFCCCA Honorable Mention All-America (Javelin - 2021)
Midwest Region Women's Field Athlete of the Year (2024 Outdoor)
Academic All-Big Ten (2024)
Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2022, 2023; Spring 2023, 2024)
Tom Osborne Citizenship Team (2023)
2024
Indoor: Did not compete.
Outdoor: NCAA Champion in the javelin with a record-breaking 210-7 (64.19m)...that mark broke the collegiate record, NCAA meet record, school record and Bahamian record...before defending her NCAA title, she went back-to-back at the Big Ten Championships, winning the javelin title with a 189-6 (57.75m)...won the javelin at the Jim Click Shootout and the Drake Relays.
2023
Indoor: Did not compete.
Outdoor: Won the javelin Bahamian National Championship with a 196-0 (59.75m)…added another gold at the NACAC U23 Championship with a meet record javelin throw of 57.48m…named javelin national champion with a distance of 195-2 (59.49m) at the NCAA Championships…threw for 189-9 (57.85m) at the Big Ten Championships to secure the javelin title…placed first at the Michael Johnson Invitational and second at the Jim Click Shootout with javelin distances of 194-6 (59.28m) and 185-10 (56.64m).
Before Nebraska
Competed for two seasons in the javelin at FIU…earned first-team All-American honors at the 2022 NCAA Outdoor Championships, placing fourth with a mark of 55.92m…was a two-time Conference USA champion…qualified for the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Championships, placing 21st with a distance of 49.60m…holds the FIU school record with a mark of 56.25m at the UF Tom Jones Memorial.